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I have been trying `alsamixer` which tells me "cannot open mixer: No such file or directory" unless I do 'sudo alsamixer' or start a process as root (mplayer for instance) at which point sound...

I have it installed. I have "ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true" in my /etc/default/acpi-support, yet when I try "laptop_mode status" it gives me:

> Laptop Mode Tools is NOT allowed to run:...

Thanks for the help, but nope, that didn't do it. First of all, I don't have the exo-*.desktop file, second, even though I found the appropriate launcher desktop file, changing its icon (one can do...

I have an icon theme going, and when using 'gnome-terminal', the window of the terminal uses the icon from the theme. When using 'xfce4-terminal' however (which I prefer, given how I now run xfce),...

Unfortunately the article spends most of time explaining about public and private keys, while I am dealing simply with my passwords. It also doesn't exactly explain how it works.

I know how...

Hi all,

Recently I have started to use the GNOME keyring application to store information such as passwords (along with logins) so that I don't have to remember it. Mostly these are passwords to...

I've had this problem since Ubuntu 9 versions. I have also tried booting with kernel 2.6.32 and it is exactly the same story.

I vote for Transmission. I think the way its developers were able to build a BitTorrent client that is fast, does the job and looks so simple is nothing short of amazing. It has all I need.

It's an IBM Thinkpad T43 with an Intel Pentium-M 2.0Ghz CPU, which although is part of 6 years old technology, is a really snappy thing.

I have just checked S.M.A.R.T. records for my hard drive...

I wrote a small Bash script I call 'humble' that lets me start a process that is as idle with regards to both CPU and I/O resources as possible. I would appreciate if someone with *nix experience...

Exporting through ~/.profile works fine ;-)

I have just exported the variable from ~/.bashrc which made it appear in GNOME terminal, for instance.

However, I have this application - SciTE - which has its own terminal, and it is not there...

Ok, I will try that (I think I even did?!).

However, wouldn't variables setup through ~/.bashrc only be available to processes actually started by bash? What about processes started by GNOME...

Hi all.

I can't seem to find how to export a variable to all processes I run under my user? I have an application that needs this variable, and currently I have to manually export this variable...

I apologize - it was my own mistake, and a silly one too.

I was writing some functions for my ~/.profile file, and one of them had an error.

Now that I removed the error, GDM logs me in just...

I can't seem to log in with GDM. It shows the username, I click it, type the correct password, at which point it starts logging me in, then screen blinks a couple of times briefly showing the loadng...

I have just finished searching with Google which took about half an hour. I searched on various combinations of words "gnome", "ubuntu", "sessions", "session management", "manage sessions", "create...

Unfortunately, I cannot describe the issue better in the limited space of the subject line.

I have set up both Apache and PHP 4 and 5 numerous time in the past, always on Windows though. It worked...

You are absolutely right. I thought it was strange that it did not expand '~~amn' but now I see that it only expands if a tilde is followed by an alpha-num. And only if the user exists - in my case...

Well, it turned out that the tilde was only expanded for my username - 'amn'. Doing 'cd ~amn' from wherever had the same effect as 'cd /home/amn' BUT only when tilde was followed by 'amn'. Doing 'cd...

I have just witnessed my home directory disappear in front of my eyes, and I cannot figure out what is it I did to deserve that.

I have my account home directory in /home/amn and from previous...

This is Karmic Koala specific issue (did not bother me in Jaunty):

Let us take the following scenario, which currently does not work as well as I hoped for:

I have a folder with 20 MP3 files. I...

I am using "wodim -v -data -speed=4 ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso" to burn my copy of downloaded .iso image file (md5 hash verifies), but when, after burning (which succeeds, writing 353266 sectors of...

I have already downloaded the final release (ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso) from BitTorrent, took about 10 minutes, on average 50 peers total. Currently seeding...

The torrent link is available at...

Hi all,

I just thought to remind everyone how we can appreciate the fine work the people at Canonical do by reliveing their servers and download Karmic Koala through BitTorrent protocol :-)...